Tag Archives: Drones

Boeing was not on the ESC this week, but the aeronautical giant has just unveiled a rather ambitious cargo drone project. HorizonX, its innovation cell, has designed in just a few months and completed the first flights of the Boeing

While reports of drones near airports are increasing in the United States and Europe, for the moment every drone impact on an airliner has resulted in a little crumpled sheet metal. Airliners have been designed to withstand bird strikes much

The ScanPyramids project made headlines a few weeks ago, with the announcement of the discovery of a large cavity in the Kheops pyramid by the ScanPyramids team. The CEA’s archaeologists and scientists used muon detectors, particles from cosmic radiation, which

After chess, the Jeopardy, the Go game, researchers are now interested in a new sport, the FPV Racing, i. e. the drones race. Researchers at the JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) in Pasadena, a NASA laboratory, have unveiled the results of

Can an aircraft rival cargo to transport containers? It is the bet of a California startup who imagines flying wings capable of carrying goods around the world. Aleksey Matyushev’s ambition is to halve the cost of air freight transport compared

The US Air Force lacks pilots. Fewer young people want to enlist and when there is enough pilot, they question the suitability of patrolling pilots who must remain on the ground in front of a forest of screens. Researchers at

Bigger of the 18 moons of Saturn, Titan fascinates the astronomers. This moon has a dense atmosphere, ocean and a complex organic chemistry that could house a form of life. To explore this system based not on carbon but methane,

History of aviation is punctuated by crazy projects, crazies who proposed a different approach on the sidelines of that aircraft manufacturers have always done. The designer of the SkyHopper is one of those. The project team not only offers a

American, German, Chinese, dozens of startups are currently engaged in an innovation race to be the first to develop a drone capable of securing a fully automated air taxi service. After the fire of straw EHang whose flights are still

A simple model and a demonstration drone in one of the innumerable stands of the Paris Air Show and yet this project makes a lot of talk about him. The Mini Bee is the French transport drone project to follow,